as in barracks
a place at which a body of troops is stationed
During the civil war this was the site of an army garrison.
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Recent Examples of garrison
Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2025
Mueda, a garrison town patrolled by tiny groups of military personnel, used to be a hub for aid efforts.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Nov. 2025
Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
In response, the government had garrisoned six regiments of soldiers in the town, in a domestic invasion that became a kind of slow-burning civil war of factory owners, supported by the state, against workers.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023
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Explore Fort Moultrie Still under construction as the Revolutionary War began, this coastal garrison (the island’s first) was notably built from palmetto logs and sand.
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Russian defenses in 2023 were deep, well prepared, fronted by extensive minefields, backed by mobile reserves, and garrisoned by troops who fought hard when attacked.
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The final part of the dormancy evolution puzzle is what ecologists refer to as the ecological niche a species occupies — the specific set of conditions that species evolved to exploit or the conditions under which that species is likely to be more successful when compared to other species.—
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Inside, authorities found fresh groceries, animals, and other signs that people are actively occupying some of the units.—
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Our chairs are for sitting on, not for constructing elaborate forts.—
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The steady flow of packages into our New York and London beauty closets alone could create a cardboard box fort or two.—
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The Windy City is suddenly besieged by a string of bomb threats, but in the midst of all the false alarms, a real situation emerges in the form of military-grade smoke grenades, which points to a terrorist threat.—
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Halladay said she’s heard from multiple doctors, including her child’s pediatrician, that they’ve been besieged with calls from parents hoping to get a prescription.—
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In September 2023, in the middle of the Northumberland night, a mechanic named Adam Carruthers cut down a sycamore tree more than a century old that stood in a gap along an especially picturesque section of Hadrian’s Wall, the Roman fortification that runs across the narrowest part of England.—
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Passmore’s magisterial, revisionist account of the Maginot Line—the network of French fortifications built in the 1920s and 1930s to stop a German invasion—challenges the conventional understanding of its role in World War II.—
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Witnesses report that other vehicles besides Good's were blockading unmarked immigration agent vehicles with their emergency LED lights activated.—
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At first, Israel blockaded Gaza entirely, against the United States’ wishes.—
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Sanders, though, was officially a full participant in practice for the first time since training camp.—
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The trainees nonetheless followed much of the usual syllabus, being ferried daily to one or other of the big Palestinian refugee camps under PFLP control for lectures and drills in unarmed combat and very basic weapons handling.—
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The Bushwick outpost shuttered in 2023.—
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The decision marks the first time a crew aboard the outpost was medically evacuated in the 25-year history of the International Space Station.—
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The reinforcement needed to combat wind loads simply made the price tag too high for most developers.—
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In September, Spotify announced new measures to combat spam and the impersonation of real artists, but frequent incidents like King Gizzard’s illustrate that the company is struggling to moderate against the influx of AI chum.—
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“Garrison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garrison. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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